On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:41:05 +0200, lcdpublishing
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lcdpublishing@...> wrote:
> Stopping the sale of "Pilot Training" to law
> abiding people wouldn't have stopped them from their goals.
No it wouldn't, but they would have had to find another way to learn to
fly planes.
Their strange behaviour while getting that training almost got them caught
(sadly only _almost_). A tiny thing here (say a checkup by authorities or
a psychological test or simply more attention by the three letter club in
charge) might very well have had a chance to prevent it all.
We will have to give up some conveniences in all this mess, everyone
understands that, but the key is to introduce reasonable measures that
will have some decent effect/inconvenience ratio.
For example, it would IMO be acceptable if they asked what you were going
to do, and required some ID before selling certain chemicals. I have no
problem with that. I don't think it would be very useful, but if they
think it helps it is the least i can do.
What i _don't_ consider reasonable is stopping the sale of perfectly
useful things by making impractical procedures to either buy or sell.
That's just stupid, because then we could just stop doing anything at all
so we don't get hurt.
> GRRRRRRRRRRRr, it's frustrating!
Indeed it is. But there's nothing we can do about this, _especially_ in
this forum.
Since i doubt we can gain world domination to try out our ideas before
Steve notices i suggest we stop this now. ;-)
ST